Inkstand-base



(No Model.)

H. O. FREYER.

INKSTAND BASE.

Patented Apr. 25, 189 3.

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HENRY FREYER, OF BROOKLYN, NEWV YORK.

INKSTAN D-BAS E.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 496,196, dated April25,1893. Application filed February 13, 1893. Serial No. 462,006. (Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY O. FREYER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, haveinvented an Improvement in Inkstand-Bases, of which the following is aspecification.

Wooden slab bases have heretofore been ex tensively employed forsupporting inkstands, especially for use on library tables where ahandsome article is desirable, and these wooden slab bases haveheretofore been made with longitudinal grooves in the surface forholding pen holders and pencils. These grooves support the entire lengthof the pen holder or pencil and it is somewhat difficult to pick up thepen holder or pencil because of inserting the fingers in the grooves.Besides the grooves become smeared with ink from the pen and the fingersfrequently become soiled in picking up the pen holder or pencil, and theobject of my invention is to overcome these objections.

My improved inkstand base consists of a slab with depressions in thesurface of the slab which may be of curved or flattened V form or anyother desired shape, and between which are ribs notched for supportingthe pen holders or pencils, the object being to support the pen holderor pencil near its respective ends only, so that it may easily begrasped by the fingers and taken up for use. These depressions in theslab also serve to hold rubber bands or postage stamps or similararticles for use.

In the drawings, Figure 1- is a plan view representing myimprovedinkstand base, and Fig. 2 is an elevation of the same from the front,the base shown being adapted to carry two ink bottles.

These inkstand bases are preferably made of slabs of wood and highlypolished so as to present an agreeable exterior, and a represents theslab base which is provided with a molded edge a and as shown in Fig. 1with two recesses b for ink bottles. These inkstand slab bases may alsobe made of other material such as thin metal of the form set forth.

The longitudinal front portion of the inkstand slab base is providedwith the depressions 1, 2, 3, in the surface of the slab and betweenwhich are the notched ribs 4, 5, 6

and 7 to receive the pen holders or pencils. These surface depressionsare shown as of curved form, but they may be of this form or of aflattened V shape without departing from the essential features of theinvention.

The pen holders or pencils are supported in the notches of the ribs 4,5, 6 and 7, at or near their respective ends and their greater portionor length is consequently above the surface depressed portions 1, 2 and3, in the slab base, and to grasp and lift said pen holders or pencilsfrom their support, the fingers do not come in contact with any portionof the inkstand base, but readily take hold of Life pen holder orpencil, and should the notched portions of the ribs receive ink from thepens, the same does not get on the fingers because the pen holders orpencils are readily grasped by the fingers between the ribs and over thedepressed portions, and these depressed portions 1, 2 and 3 formconvenient receptacles for rubber bands, seals, postage stamps and otherlike useful articles.

Although I have shown in the drawings three surface depressed portions,I reserve the right to use any number of depressed portions, because ina small inkstand slab base using only one ink bottle there would only beroom for one or two surface depressions at the most, and in a baseholding more than two bottles there would probably be more than thethree surface depressions shown, and I do not limit myself to thesurface depressions with intermediate notched ribs along the front ofthe slab base, as the same might be arranged along each side orpartially along the front and along one or both sides, the essentialfeature being the surface depressions and intermediate notched ribs forsupporting the pen holders or pencils.

I claim as my invention- As a new article of manufacture, an ink- 9stand base composed of a slab with depressed portions in the surface andintermediate ribs notched to support pen holders or pencils at or neartheir respective ends, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

Sign ed by me this 6th day of February, 1893.

HENRY O. FREYER.

VVitn esses GEO. T. PINOKNEY, HAROLD SERRELL.

